Retail apocalypse has been discussed as a result of the increasing online consumption due to a digitalized society. Many researchers claim that the future of consumption will solely take place digitally, that the physical store won't have an actual function and will eventually get replaced by new appealing meeting places online. Why do companies choose to keep and newly establish physical stores in a digitalized society? Which synergies between online channels and physical stores do companies choose to use in order to create a favorable interface? By implementing qualitative semi structured interviews with five different companies, the answer to the above mentioned questions is therefore that companies that sell high engagement products tend to have a higher need of physical stores despite digitalization. Such companies consider that physical stores and online channels are complements to each other, thus one needs the other in order to perform as well as desired. Another aspect that is more achievable in physical stores compared to online channels is the cross sales aspect. Additionally, companies tend to use transparency and digitalized transitions between their different sales channels in order to achieve the highest desired results.  Therefore, the aim of this study is to add a new knowledge aspect to the already existing research in this field. That is, through shedding the light on the remaining need of physical stores for companies that sell high engagement products. Hence, this study could be summed up with the simple fact that retail apocalypse is not the ultimate truth in all situations. / Butiksdöden har länge diskuterats till följd av den ökande e-handeln som har framkommit i samband med det digitaliserade samhället. Många forskare menar att framtidens handel enbart kommer äga rum digitalt, att den fysiska butiken inte fyller någon funktion och kommer så småningom att ersättas med nya tilltalande mötesplatser online. Varför väljer då företag att bibehålla och nyetablera fysiska butiker i ett digitaliserat samhälle och vilka synergier mellan onlinekanaler och fysiska butiker använder sig företag av för att skapa ett gynnsamt samspel? Genom kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med fem olika företag kan ovannämnda frågor besvaras genom att konstatera att företag som säljer högengagemangsprodukter anser att behovet av den fysiska butiken kvarstår trots digitaliseringen. Detta då sådana företag anser att den fysiska- och den digitala verksamheten agerar komplement och därmed presterar den ena inte lika bra utan den andra. Mer försäljningen är ännu en aspekt som sker i den fysiska butiken som inte går att uppnå till samma grad genom e-handeln. Företag tillämpar även en transparens samt digitala övergångar mellan diverse försäljningskanaler för att skapa ett så gynnsamt samspel som möjligt. Syftet med denna studie är således att tillföra en kompletterande kunskapsvinkel till den redan befintliga forskningen inom området. Detta genom att belysa att företag med olika engagemangsprodukter har olika behov av en fysisk verksamhet. Därmed summeras denna studie med att butiksdöden inte är den förutsedda sanningen alla gånger.

Berge Meere und Giganten (BMG) by Alfred Döblin is a fictional account of future events in which humanity brings about the ruin of western civilization by its own technological hubris. Although BMG has been examined considerably for its literary merit in light of the Döblin corpus, few scholars have identified Döblin's work as an apocalyptic text especially after the Judeo-Christian tradition. The apocalyptic nature of BMG implies a profound religious experience on the part of the author, which in my view offers at least one plausible explanation for Döblin's repeated fixation with BMG. In my thesis, I explicate the apocalyptic themes of BMG by considering the intertextuality of the apocryphal Book of the Watchers, the canonical Book of Revelation from the New Testament with some of its connections to Babylonian mythology, and finally the function of the author as a conduit of the literary tradition of apocalypticism. Ultimately, I demonstrate that BMG draws heavily from these apocalyptic texts and is consistent with the Judeo-Christian apocalyptic tradition, which utilizes the descriptions of macroscopic catastrophes in human history as a metaphor of spiritual transformation.

In this project I am exploring 6 different life forms; snail, slime mold, frog, rock, moss, and fungi. I am approaching these life-forms as agent entities for me to channel, and act for them as vessels.  “Apocalypse Fatigue” is both an exploration of my own artistic practice, by attempting to create works from a nonhuman-centric perspective and investigating how different entities can be co-creators, and an exploration of its sustainability.   It is also an attempt to approach nature as a direct actor to create multiple narratives regarding climate change. Taking the perspective of another organism allows me to imagine alternative ways of being in the world, and through them, I can explore my own emotions, artistic visions or reflect on social issues with a fresh perspective. In a wider way, my work tries to challenge, modestly, dominant world views and presents an alternative to the apocalyptic narratives so often mobilized when speaking about climate change.

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This study investigated how the age of an environmental movement organisation and its degree of institutionalisation impacted the usage of threat-related framing and blame attribution in regards to environmental issues. Environmental discourse has lately developed a rhetoric that embraces urgency and severity, but how different types of environmental movement organisations have approached this, historically and today, has not been widely studied. A mixed-methods approach was therefore employed that thematically examined texts from the Swedish branch of Extinction Rebellion and The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation at several points in time. The analysis indicated that the degree of institutionalisation had an influence on the organisation’s blame attribution, whilst age did not. Furthermore, no conclusive implications followed the analysis of the organisation’s framings. The study concluded that the degree of institutionalisation is an important factor behind how environmental movement organisations choose their blame attribution. The study provided insights into how institutionalisation affects strategic choices of movement organisations, possibly providing a foundation for future research in the field.

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